Word: rossettis
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When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment of four unusual volunteers. Their names were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais. The guards were even more puzzled...
With this smashing victory, it seemed certain that the new President would press for breaking relations with the Axis. The day before the election it was reported that Chile's Foreign Minister Juan Bautista Rossetti, sensing which way the Chilean wind was blowing, had the same idea in mind...
Senhor Aranha, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, Chile's Juan Bautista Rossetti, Peru's gaunt-jowled Alfredo Solf y Muro and Ecuador's pink-cheeked Julio Tobar Donoso, each to his own taste, drank up. Still rumpled and tired, the six men filed out to a bronze-studded table in the Itamaraty Palace's Saláo de Baile and before glaring camera lights and sleepy-eyed newsmen signed a protocol which settled-after 113 years of intermittent border warfare-the last major...
...table in Itamaraty Palace, the delegates gathered to announce the compromise resolution. His face ash-grey with disappointment, chainsmoking, Sumner Welles leaned forward with his head on three fingers of his left hand. From time to time he carefully mopped his forehead with a folded handkerchief. Chile's Rossetti continually and nervously smeared his hand over his sweaty face. Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú clasped and unclasped his hands with a prayerlike gesture, toyed with a large ring on the third finger of his left hand...
...nearly three hours the delegates made speeches. Most violent was Chile's Rossetti. He literally screamed at calm, impassive Padilla, who had described the furor over "no podrán continuar" and "podrán no continuar" as a "drama of grammar." Chile had called the Conference in the first place, and now Chile's representative was one of the two most active in preventing unity. Argentina alone might not have gone through with intransigence; bolstered by Chile, her position was far stronger...